I'm no expert, but it seems to me that moving someone who's struggles are mental from a position he may no excel at but is used to, to one he has either played at in the distant past or not at all seems counter-productive. I'm more inclined to believe that his issues are more physical/injury related, and moving to an unfamiliar position doesn't help with that either.

But if he ends up right on this and his 'Stanton to the Dodgers after Grandal is flipped to the A's for prospects' his follower count should shoot through the roof. (If he's only right on Ohtani to SD he'll just get maybe a few dozen follows.)

He’s bad at first base. What makes you think he’d be able to hold down another new, more difficult position?

I think the jury is still out on his defense at 1B. I think we were all pretty happy with year one. Last year was pretty mediocre. It seems to be a mental discipline issue. Hopefully he gets his **** straight.

Another guy with no followers on Twitter is calling Ohtani to San Diego but he's more interesting because on his timeline you can see that he preempted news about Kelly to UCLA and Boone to the Yankees. He also claims that he broke Jansen and Turner back to LA and Davis to Chicago, but I didn't go back the 12 months to check.

From that kareezysports from earlier...

Sources: Ultimately familiarity won out in regards to Ohtani #Padres Also wanted a team that would give him the most AB’s and wouldn’t be deterred by a cold streak.

life of a San Diego fan, get excited as possible only for a major let down

Yep.
I'm glad I haven't learned to curb my enthusiasm though, at least I get those fun, excited moments (before the drop).

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Originally Posted by Büey 45

Present and future winning potential, relevant experience with Japanese players, large Japanese population, creativity/flexiblity and, as a bonus, their manager is half-Japanese.

Heh. reminds me of hearing D Smith interview DR when he was still playing, probably his last September, and he mentioned that most players were into a fantasy football league they had going. He had a team with Chris Young, who named it "Youth and Asia".
I try to come up with clever names for my FF teams, but that's a bar way too high for me to approach.

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Why the Dodgers?

Meanwhile all the Cubs and Giants fans each think its their respective teams he's going to choose. It's a funny mix of conceit and desperate hope.

I'm still holding on to the little dream that it's The Pads he picks.

OK, so later posts also explain that some AL teams also happen to be allowed to pitch in (pun intended) more money.
But wasn't he interested in the AL all along, since he plays as DH for a few games between starts, and wants the same arrangement when he joins the MLB?

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Originally Posted by sdsuphilip

Don’t think we get him oh well

Ditto. Feel some excitement, but really as a Padres fan you learn to expect failure.

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Originally Posted by HollywoodLeo

As an aside, I like how a thread titled "Otani may not come over" has become the official discussion thread for the process of Otani coming over.

me too.

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Originally Posted by natedoggsd

He plays the KFC Colonel on their commercials.

heh, good one.

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Originally Posted by GWYNN3K

From that kareezysports from earlier...

Sources: Ultimately familiarity won out in regards to Ohtani #Padres Also wanted a team that would give him the most AB’s and wouldn’t be deterred by a cold streak.

This would be awesome

The awesomest!
Also finding it hard to shift focus back to work now...